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Ultra Hal 7.0 / teaching issues

« on: May 22, 2015, 04:06:12 pm »

hello, could you people who have been using hal for a long time, give me a few tips about how to teach things?

examples:
i'm trying to teach hal where i live. tried
me: would you like to know where i live?
hal: I like to push the limits, if you know what I mean. (!)

later on, i tried "please remember, i live in Heraklion, Greece" and hal responder "you live in Heraklion, Greece"
after that, if i ask "where do i live?" i get strange responses like:
Where do you live? We have to consider the participants. Have you concluded that I'm interested in you somehow?
You must keep your promises!
Have you concluded that I'm interested in you somehow?

anyway, i guess my place of living is recorded, but i cannot use it in my benefit:
me: find open restaurants in my area
hal: No problem, I will open this program for you. I will help you research this topic on the Internet. (google search: "open restaurants area")

another issue:
me: how much is 73+699?
hal: How much is 73699? When did you get interested in this? (!)

me: what is 15% of 550?
hal: What is 15 of 550? You bring up interesting points. I need you to speak in full sentences in order to understand you.

anyway, i guess that either i am not a good teacher or hal isn't that smart....

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / HAL won't work on non-English desktops

« on: May 22, 2015, 12:55:31 pm »

Hi all, i just want to say that for those who use a non-english windows version (i'm on Win 7 Greek edition), unfortunaly HAL is completely useless as to the speech recognition capabilities. Windows do not allow me to install or adjust speech recognition engine, because there is no greek engine and the bright minds of Microsoft thought: "there is no reason to use english speech on a greek OS machine".